The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling

88 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST last sacrifice? Communism became for him a substitute religion as Weitling enacted the double role of o ...

A MARTYR'S CROWN gQ could be expected under the circumstances. The prisoner not only was certain that he had a mission in life, ...

CHAPTER VI VI. A London Interlude T HE day of release from the real and imaginary terrors of the Zurich jail finally arrived, wi ...

A LONDON INTERLUDE 91 into Germany. In the scuffle which ensued, his coat was torn and he was roughly handled by the police, who ...

92 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST away from the hostels of the journeymen and not leave the city without permission from the authorities. ...

A LONDON INTERLUDE 93 Borne. Heine referred to his encounter with Weitling in a letter to Marx, written on September 21, 1844. A ...

94 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST while he was a prisoner, partly to comfort him in his physical and mental torment and partly to while a ...

A LONDON INTERLUDE 95 the writer's reflections while in jail, were simple lyrics that con­ ceivably might have been written at a ...

96 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST The author also expressed the fear that the great new "system for the testing of truth" which he had di ...

A LONDON INTERLUDE 97 Der Spiegel nicht an meiner Leiche modern, Der heil'ge Geist der Wahrheit sagt es mir. Weitling departed b ...

98 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST the story of his arrest and prosecution, and recommended his three major works as the creation of an "i ...

A LONDON INTERLUDE 99 Weitling was absorbed quickly into the life of London's West End. He realized a few pounds from the sale o ...

100 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST munists at the Red Lion, but in his lectures to the assembled work­ men he spoke more often of the pro ...

A LONDON INTERLUDE 101 the membership of that society from 70 to 130 m ten months, and for the discussion meetings held twice a ...

102 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST and still deeply affected by his prison experiences, clung stub­ bornly to his role as a prophet and p ...

A LONDON INTERLUDE 103 readiness to accept the aid of all classes whenever the time should arrive for a temporary dictatorship t ...

104 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST per, during his absence, had specifically attacked his pet proposals for a Tauschbank and Kommerzstund ...

CHAPTER VII WEITLING AND MARX T HE controversy in London between Weitling and Schap­ per foreshadowed the inevitable break with ...

106 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST ish socialists, and that he referred to Weitling's organizing activi­ ties as "the first independent m ...

WEITLING AND MARX 107 ... an excellent, constructive head, and an unselfish character, the only really great communist of pre-Ma ...